Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 80 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 +19 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 631 688 846
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.07% 2.93% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.27% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 520 665
10th Percentile £282 £313 £277
25th Percentile £363 £372 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £629
UK median daily rate £480 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.94 £17.09
25th Percentile £41.48 £52.00 £23.75
Median hourly rate £50.53 £57.50 £45.10
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% +27.49% +20.27%
75th Percentile £63.44 £70.25 £67.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.02
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £61.62 £43.06
% change year-on-year -10.94% +43.09% +7.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +29 222 £463 +2.21% 90
South West +14 124 £500 -9.09% 78
North of England -2 119 £425 -10.53% 72
North West +2 78 £425 -10.53% 38
Scotland +70 68 £475 -12.04% 31
Midlands -12 55 £425 -5.56% 71
West Midlands +8 46 £475 +5.56% 41
East of England -20 38 £525 +16.67% 42
Yorkshire +5 36 £380 -10.59% 28
East Midlands -10 8 £338 -23.73% 30
Wales +3 6 £365 -33.64% 12
North East +10 5 £438 +2.94% 9
Infrastructure Engineering
UK

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 42 (6.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 23 (3.65%) Confluence
4 9 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (1.11%) IIS
6 6 (0.95%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.48%) Apache
7 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.63%) AutoCAD
4 4 (0.63%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 173 (27.42%) Azure
2 73 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (10.30%) AWS
4 32 (5.07%) Entra ID
5 17 (2.69%) SaaS
6 16 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (2.38%) IaaS
7 15 (2.38%) OCI
7 15 (2.38%) OpenShift
8 14 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.06%) PaaS
10 12 (1.90%) GCP
11 9 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.11%) Mimecast
14 6 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 118 (18.70%) Firewall
2 108 (17.12%) DNS
3 86 (13.63%) DHCP
4 79 (12.52%) SAN
5 37 (5.86%) WAN
6 33 (5.23%) LAN
7 28 (4.44%) NAS
8 25 (3.96%) TCP/IP
8 25 (3.96%) VPN
9 23 (3.65%) Network Security
10 22 (3.49%) Software-Defined Radio
10 22 (3.49%) Wireless
11 16 (2.54%) SNMP
11 16 (2.54%) VSAN
12 13 (2.06%) OSPF
13 11 (1.74%) Wireless Security
14 10 (1.58%) Ethernet
14 10 (1.58%) VLAN
14 10 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (1.27%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.06%) Power BI
3 7 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.11%) MySQL
4 6 (0.95%) Metadata
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Power View
4 6 (0.95%) PowerPivot
4 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.16%) Adabas
7 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (4.60%) Git
2 27 (4.28%) JIRA
3 17 (2.69%) Robot Framework
4 16 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 16 (2.54%) Eclipse
5 15 (2.38%) GoogleTest
6 13 (2.06%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.27%) Maven
8 7 (1.11%) Hudson
9 6 (0.95%) Gradle
10 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.32%) Selenium
12 1 (0.16%) CA Gen
12 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 54 (8.56%) Public Sector
3 30 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.12%) Finance
5 12 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.27%) Banking
6 8 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.27%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (0.95%) Publishing
9 4 (0.63%) German Language
9 4 (0.63%) Military
10 3 (0.48%) Back Office
10 3 (0.48%) Front Office
10 3 (0.48%) Local Government
10 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.32%) Legal
11 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 432 (68.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (8.87%) Network Engineer
2 56 (8.87%) Senior
3 44 (6.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (6.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (4.44%) Support Engineer
6 27 (4.28%) Storage Engineer
7 22 (3.49%) Infrastructure Technician
7 22 (3.49%) VMware Engineer
8 21 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 21 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (3.33%) Infrastructure Support
9 20 (3.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 19 (3.01%) Architect
10 19 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (2.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 18 (2.85%) Server Engineer
11 18 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 18 (2.85%) Windows Engineer
12 16 (2.54%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.49%) CSS
1 22 (3.49%) HTML
2 18 (2.85%) Flash
3 7 (1.11%) .NET
4 3 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.48%) Redfish
5 2 (0.32%) LAMP
5 2 (0.32%) Middleware
6 1 (0.16%) JSON
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.16%) Node.js
6 1 (0.16%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.89%) Data Centre
2 28 (4.44%) PKI
3 25 (3.96%) Private Cloud
4 16 (2.54%) Clustering
5 14 (2.22%) NHS
6 11 (1.74%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 6 (0.95%) Fat Client
8 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.95%) Replication
8 6 (0.95%) Thin Client
9 5 (0.79%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.48%) CMDB
10 3 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.48%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.48%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 255 (40.41%) Windows
2 150 (23.77%) Linux
3 141 (22.35%) Windows Server
4 49 (7.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 42 (6.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 42 (6.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 39 (6.18%) Unix
7 35 (5.55%) Windows 10
8 24 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (2.22%) Windows XP
10 13 (2.06%) AIX
11 12 (1.90%) Windows 7
12 10 (1.58%) Ubuntu
12 10 (1.58%) Windows Server 2003
12 10 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (1.43%) Mac OS
13 9 (1.43%) VMS
14 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.48%) CentOS
15 3 (0.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (11.89%) Agile
3 74 (11.73%) Migration
4 70 (11.09%) ITIL
5 50 (7.92%) DevOps
6 45 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (5.71%) Project Delivery
8 34 (5.39%) Software Engineering
9 30 (4.75%) Customer Service
10 26 (4.12%) Server Management
10 26 (4.12%) Validation
11 24 (3.80%) Change Management
12 23 (3.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 23 (3.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 22 (3.49%) Mentoring
13 22 (3.49%) Network Management
13 22 (3.49%) Scrum
13 22 (3.49%) Virtual Environments
14 21 (3.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 21 (3.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (16.16%) PowerShell
2 36 (5.71%) Python
3 35 (5.55%) SQL
4 22 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.01%) Java
6 17 (2.69%) Bash
6 17 (2.69%) C++
7 11 (1.74%) C#
7 11 (1.74%) VBScript
8 9 (1.43%) Ruby
9 8 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.11%) Groovy
11 4 (0.63%) Perl
12 3 (0.48%) C
12 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.16%) Bicep
13 1 (0.16%) Natural
Qualifications
1 268 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 159 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 122 (19.33%) DV Cleared
4 60 (9.51%) Degree
5 55 (8.72%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (8.56%) CCNA
7 26 (4.12%) CCNP
8 21 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (3.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (1.90%) MCSE
11 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.95%) VCAP
14 5 (0.79%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.79%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.58%) SLA
2 8 (1.27%) NIST
3 6 (0.95%) GDPR
3 6 (0.95%) QA
4 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.16%) COBIT
6 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 181 (28.68%) Active Directory
2 175 (27.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (9.19%) Hyper-V
4 54 (8.56%) VMware ESXi
5 53 (8.40%) vSphere
6 30 (4.75%) VMware NSX
7 27 (4.28%) Firmware
8 26 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (3.33%) XenApp
10 12 (1.90%) Docker
11 7 (1.11%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.63%) KVM
14 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 75 (11.89%) SCCM
2 66 (10.46%) vCenter Server
3 39 (6.18%) WSUS
4 29 (4.60%) Terraform
5 26 (4.12%) Ansible
6 23 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (3.49%) SCOM
8 17 (2.69%) NetBackup
9 15 (2.38%) Kubernetes
10 14 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.11%) VxRail
13 6 (0.95%) vRealize
14 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (0.79%) Nessus
14 5 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.48%) logstash
Vendors
1 249 (39.46%) VMware
2 171 (27.10%) Microsoft
3 63 (9.98%) Cisco
4 46 (7.29%) Veeam
5 37 (5.86%) Citrix
6 35 (5.55%) Dell
7 30 (4.75%) HP
8 26 (4.12%) Atlassian
9 24 (3.80%) Symantec
10 23 (3.65%) Red Hat
11 21 (3.33%) Google
12 20 (3.17%) Oracle
13 18 (2.85%) 3PAR
13 18 (2.85%) Juniper
13 18 (2.85%) Palo Alto
14 16 (2.54%) Brocade
14 16 (2.54%) EMC
15 14 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (2.22%) IBM
16 13 (2.06%) Ivanti